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  • Successful funeral service practice. Edited by Howard C. Raether.

    • Text
    • Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 71-276|m(SASB)Offsite
  • Preneed burial service. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, second session. May 19, 1964.

    • Text
    • Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964.
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 72-115Offsite
  • The rules and regulations of the State Board of Funeral Directors [microform] effective January 9, 1967.

    • Text
    • [Harrisburg, 1967]
    • 1967
  • Proposals for legislative reform aiding the consumer of funeral industry products & services, by William A. W. Neilson and C. Gaylord Watkins. A study commissioned jointly by the Memorial Society Association of Canada and the Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Societies.

    • Text
    • Burnsville, N.C., Celo Press, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 75-2518Offsite
  • American blue book of funeral directors.

    • Text
    • New York, American Funeral Director.
    • 1932-2003
    • 7 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 76-1589 2003Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 76-1589 v. 22 (1974/75)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 76-1589 v. 34 (1998)Offsite
  • La foire aux cadavres.

    • Text
    • [Paris] Denoël [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 76-1586Offsite
  • Funeral service : a bibliography of literature on its past, present, and future, the various means of disposition, and memorialization / by Barbara K. Harran and David F. Harrah.

    • Text
    • Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 77-1975Offsite
  • Funeral directors. Directeurs de funérailles.

    • Text
    • Ottawa, Statistics Canada.
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 77-1205 1972-85Offsite
  • Funeral service abstracts.

    • Westport, Conn., c1969-
    • 1969-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    JLM 78-296 v. 1-2 (1969-1970)Offsite
  • Eski Mısırda, islâm dünyasında ve bizde tahnit maddeleri hakkında [microform] [Yazan]: A. Süheyl Ünver.

    • Text
    • Istanbul, Osman Yalçın Matbaası, 1953.
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMM-171Offsite
  • Funeral financing. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Business, Commerce and Taxation of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session, on H. R. 13492 and H. R. 13969 to require licensed undertakers in the District of Columbia to furnish financial statements when funeral arrangements are made.

    • Text
    • Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 77-680Offsite
  • Funerals, consumers' last rights : the Consumers Union report on conventional funerals and burial ... and some alternatives, including cremation, direct cremation, direct burial, and body donation / by the editors of Consumer Reports.

    • Text
    • Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Consumers Union, c1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 79-551Offsite
  • Funeral industry practices : proposed trade regulation rule and staff memorandum / Arthur R. Angel ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • [Washington] : Division of Special Projects, Bureau of Consumer Protection, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 79-1831Offsite
  • The law of death and disposal of the dead / by Hugh Y. Bernard. 2d ed.

    • Text
    • Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, [1979]
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLC 80-145Offsite
  • Color and cosmetics; the consummation of restorative art, by J. Sheridan Mayer.

    • Text
    • [New York, Graphic Arts Press, 1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSE 80-1103Offsite
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  • Funeral industry practices : final staff report to the Federal Trade Commission and proposed trade regulation rule (16 CFR Part 453).

    • Text
    • [Washington] : Bureau of Consumer Protection, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 81-308Offsite
  • Sourcebook on death and dying / consulting editor, James A. Fruehling.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Ill. : Marquis Professional Publications, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 83-691Offsite
  • Report of the presiding officer on proposed trade regulation rule concerning funeral industry practices : (16 C.F.R. part 453), United States of America before Federal Trade Commission / Jack E. Kahn, presiding officer.

    • Text
    • [Washington] : Federal Trade Commission, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 83-1153Offsite
  • Osōshiki no keizaigaku / Nakagawa Kōzan.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Yamate Shobō, Shōwa 59 [1984]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OSM 87-1815Offsite
  • Une vie pour les morts : les dix mille enterrements de Jérôme Lambert / [confidences recueillies par] Marcel Clébant.

    • Text
    • [Paris] : Stock, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAY 2023Offsite
  • Les Funérailles en France.

    • Text
    • Paris : Fédération nationale des pompes funèbres, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAX E-194Offsite
  • American funeral director.

    • Text
    • Canton, Ohio, Kates-Boylston Publications
    • unknown-present
    • 181 Items

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    Text SPX+ (American funeral director) v. 130, no. 11 (Nov 2007)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text SPX+ (American funeral director) v. 130, no. 10 (Oct 2007)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text SPX+ (American funeral director) v. 130, no. 1 (Jan 2007)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • No funerals on picnic day! : Victorian funeral associations, 1890-1990 / Don Chambers.

    • Text
    • Melbourne, Vic. : AFDA, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 91-1567Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Fred Monroe Williams portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1925?-1930?>
    • 1925-1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Williams, Fred MonroeSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Tender sympathies : a social history of Botany Cemetery and the Eastern Suburbs Crematorium / Sue Zelinka.

    • Text
    • Sydney, NSW : Hale & Iremonger, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 92-1112Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • C&S.

    • Text
    • [Baltimore]. C&S Publications, 1974-
    • 1974-19
    • 7 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 93-262 v. 111-112 1981-82Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 93-262 v. 113-114 1983-84Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 93-262 v. 115-119 Feb. 1983 - fall 1988Offsite
  • Mortuary management [microform].

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, Berg Publications.
    • 1914-present
    • 41 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBM 93-1167 v. 98-99 (2011-2012)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JBM 93-1167 v. 100-101 (2013-2014)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JBM 93-1167 v. 102-103 (2015-2016)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Annual report of the State Board of Registration in Embalming [microform].

    • Text
    • Providence : The Board
    • 1-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZAN-10977 1924-1948Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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  • The National yellow book of funeral directors.

    • Text
    • Youngstown, OH : Nomis Publications, 1988-
    • 1988-
    • 5 Items
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    Text JBM 93-1084 1996Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JBM 93-1084 1997Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JBM 93-1084 1998Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Canadian funeral service.

    • Text
    • Scarborough, Ont., [etc.] J. O'Hagan & Co.
    • 1923-1973
    • 10 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TMA+ (Canadian funeral service) v. 26 1948Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TMA+ (Canadian funeral service) v. 27-28 1949-50Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TMA+ (Canadian funeral service) v. 29 1951Offsite
  • One hundred years of Le Pine, 1891-1991 / Don Chambers.

    • Text
    • South Melbourne, Vic. : Hyland House, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 96-2536Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The death care industries in the United States / by Ronald G.E. Smith.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBE 96-1395Offsite
  • The truth about funerals / Donald Flynn.

    • Text
    • Burlington, Ont. : Funeral Consultants International, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 97-709Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects [graphic]

    • Still image
    • [ca. 1600?-1836]
    • 1600-1836
    • 1 Resource

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  • The dismal trader-- : the undertaker business in Perth, 1860-1939 / Leonie B. Liveris.

    • Text
    • Perth, W.A. : [s.n.], 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 96-4194Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • African American entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940 : the story of R.C. Scott / Michael A. Plater.

    • Text
    • New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
    • 1996
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-170Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text JBD 98-997Offsite
  • Communication processes among Black urban embalmers : a qualitative study / Edith Churchman.

    • Text
    • c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-120Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The law of death and disposal of the dead, by Hugh Y. Bernard.

    • Text
    • Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text C-13 2654Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Funeral service as a career.

    • Text
    • Milwaukee, Wis., Park Pub. House, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-10 5964 no. 1-9Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The history of American funeral directing [by] Robert W. Habenstein [and] William M. Lamers.

    • Text
    • Milwaukee, Bulfin Printers, 1962 [1968, c1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-14 2343Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Psychology of funeral service / by Edward A. Martin.

    • Text
    • Grand Junction, Colo.: Printed by Sentinel Printing Co.] c1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-14 9226Offsite
  • Know your mortician; an inside view of the funeral profession.

    • Text
    • New York, Expostion Press [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-15 4265Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Funeral service facts and figures; the findings of a survey of 1958 funeral service income and expense data conducted by Eugene F. Foran for the National Funeral Directors Association of the United States, inc.

    • Text
    • [n.p.] c1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-15 7810 no. 1-6Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Quite an undertaking : the story of Violet Guymer, Canada's first female licensed funeral director / Elizabeth Lycar and Lorrie Guymer Hutton.

    • Text
    • Kelowna, B.C. : Nip & Tuck Publishing, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 97-10370Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The disposal of the dead / by C.J. Polson, R.P. Brittain, T.K. Marshall ; edited by C.J. Polson.

    • Text
    • Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, c1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-15 1617Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Mortuary law.

    • Text
    • Cincinnati, Cincinnati College of Embalming, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E-12 697Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Redegørelse om bedemandsbranchen.

    • Text
    • København, Statens Trykningskontor (D.B.K.), 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E-13 7577Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • R.C. Scott : a history of African-American entrepreneurship in Richmond 1890-1940 / by Michael A. Plater.

    • Text
    • 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-1195Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Funeral costs; what they average. Are they too high? Can they be reduced? By John C. Gebhart, with an introduction by Lee K. Frankel.

    • Text
    • New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SPX (Gebhart, J. C. Funeral costs)Offsite
  • The history of American funeral directing [by] Robert W. Habenstein [and] William M. Lamers.

    • Text
    • Milwaukee, Bulfin, 1955.
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SPX (Habenstein, R. W. History of American funeral directing)Offsite

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